Several wounded in shooting at Walmart in Duncan, Oklahoma - USA TODAY

John Bacon and John C Moritz Austin Bureau USA TODAY NETWORK USA TODAY

Published 12:09 PM EST Nov 18, 2019

Three people were killed Monday in a shooting at a Walmart in Duncan, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma HIghway Patrol said.

The fate of the shooter was not immediately clear. The Duncan Banner, citing police, reported that the dead included the gunman. Schools in the city were on lockdown, the media outlet reported.A dispatcher for Duncan police told USA TODAY that officers were on the scene of an "incident" at the store.

At the Ace Hardware store about a block south of the Walmart in Duncan, cashier Austyn Fenwick said the store was notified of the incident but is carrying on business as usual.

“We’re not on lockdown or anything, but we were told to be on the lookout for someone in black clothing,” Fenwick said in phone interview. “We have customers in the store, so we are all right.”

Lynn Gregston, who owns Country Club Care nursing home across the street from the Walmart, said authorities told him the gunman shot himself after firing on two others.

“Everything is in control," Gregston said, adding that the 72 residents at his facility are all OK. “We locked it down using our alert system.”

Duncan is a city of about 25,000 people in Stephens County, about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City.

The shooting took place just days after the reopening of a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that had been the scene of a mass shooting Aug. 3. That attack left 22 people dead in the parking lot and inside the Cielo Vista Supercenter.

Contributing: The Associated Press

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